3P Principles for Improvement of E-Accessibility

2021 ◽  
pp. 152-162
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Reading Disabilities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Environment

The accessibility of the sources, materials, and activities on the internet are part of the functioning interaction in the 21st century. There are plenty of barriers in the internet environment for people with dyslexia. The literacy portal alleviates the problems that people with reading disabilities face. Its tools and materials support discovery, understanding, and usage of the internet, as well as ICT resources to improve their effective usage in everyday life. The experiences gathered while creating the portal are recorded here for their usage in the methods proposed in further chapters.

scholarly journals Human rights in the age of digitalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-125
Author(s):  
Elena Olegovna Tchinaryan ◽  
Evgeny Sergeevich Kuchenin ◽  
Vladimir Lvovich Slesarev ◽  
Andrey Vladimirovich Ryzhik
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
General Population ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Internet Environment

At the very beginning of the 21st century, some experts agreed that the dispersal of the political and cultural initiative of network societies tends to reduce the unified control over political and cultural activities. This process leads to the accessibility of information to the general population and increases the scale of democratization of society. The accessible Internet environment has had a positive impact on the openness of information; however, it has harmed the protection of users' data. Gerald Cohen, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, who is an expert in intellectual property and copyright protection, recommends considering Internet utopianism through a system of legal values. It is important to note the utopianism that links the Internet network and human independence considering utopianism in the field of anonymity in more detail, as something that harms social institutions. Cohen also outlines the view that existing legal institutions are the basis for protecting human independence, as well as the importance of creating new legal institutions.

scholarly journals Internet of Samples (iSamples): Toward an interdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure for material samples

GigaScience ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Davies ◽  
John Deck ◽  
Eric C Kansa ◽  
Sarah Whitcher Kansa ◽  
John Kunze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Data Standards ◽  
Meta Data ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Data Stewardship

Abstract Sampling the natural world and built environment underpins much of science, yet systems for managing material samples and associated (meta)data are fragmented across institutional catalogs, practices for identification, and discipline-specific (meta)data standards. The Internet of Samples (iSamples) is a standards-based collaboration to uniquely, consistently, and conveniently identify material samples, record core metadata about them, and link them to other samples, data, and research products. iSamples extends existing resources and best practices in data stewardship to render a cross-domain cyberinfrastructure that enables transdisciplinary research, discovery, and reuse of material samples in 21st century natural science.

Phenomenon of the Internet Immersion: Definition and Measurement

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
L.A. Regush ◽  
◽  
A.V. Orlova ◽  
E.V. Alekseeva ◽  
O.R. Veretina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Time Range ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Internet Environment

The purpose of the study was to justify the essence of the “Internet immersion” phenomenon and to create a standardized method for its measurement. A comparative analysis of approaches to human behavior on the Internet environment and existing diagnostic methods has revealed a significant variety of categories and definitions used. At the same time, there is no definition that: first, characterizes the degree and quality of user's Internet activity; second, is free from negative and clinical connotations; and, third, describes a wider time range of Internet usage than the actual state of immersion. The authors substantiate the possibility of studying the phenomenon of the Internet immersion through the category of disposition. It consists of the readiness to use technical means and informational resources of the Internet to solve problems in various types of activities and communication. The authors identify traditional components in the structure of the Internet immersion phenomenon. These are, first of all, a cognitive component, represented by digital competence self-assessment; then, an affective component, represented by motivation and emotional and value-based attitude towards the Internet; and a behavioral component, represented by the amount of digital consumption. Based on this definition, it was possible to construct a compact 9-block “Index of the Internet immersion” questionnaire. Its standardization was conducted on the sample of 712 adolescents, aged from 11 to 17. Using the factor analysis, the structure of the questionnaire was identified. The first factor includes questions that relate to the time spent on the Internet and signs of dependence on it. The second factor includes questions that reveal the activity component and emotional attitude to the Internet. The third factor includes questions about experience and self-assessment of digital competence. The advantage of the “Index of the Internet immersion” questionnaire is a fairly high reliability for internal consistency of scales throughout the questionnaire. We also confirmed the sufficient convergent validity of the “Internet environment immersion Index” method with the “Scale of Problematic Internet Usage” by A.A. Gerasimova, A.B. Kholmogorova (adapted version of Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale (GPIUS) by S. Caplan) and the Internet Addiction Test (IAT, K. Young), modified by V. A. Loskutova. This indicates its validity as an independent tool that does not duplicate other tools for semantically similar phenomena measurement. In the conditions of forced self-isolation that have developed in our country, the method of the Internet immersion diagnostics as an adequate and theoretically justified tool will allow us to study changes in the emotional state and behavior of teenagers on the Internet.

Web Sites for Young Children: Gateway to Online Social Networking?

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0901300
Author(s):  
Sheri Bauman ◽  
Tanisha Tatum
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Developmental Issues

Traffic on Web sites for young children (ages 3-12) has increased exponentially in recent years. Advocates proclaim that they are safe introductions to the Internet and online social networking and teach essential 21st-century skills. Critics note developmental concerns. In this article, we provide basic information about Web sites for young children, discuss developmental issues, and make recommendations for school counselors to be proactive and aware of the advantages and dangers inherent in these sites.

Uncovering the Wealth of Physics Examples from Videos on the Internet for Use in Physics Lessons

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 2050005
Author(s):  
Shen Yong Ho
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Physics Teaching ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Lightning Strikes ◽  
Online Videos ◽  
Physics Concepts ◽  
Car Crashes

It is well known among educators that carefully planned Physics demonstrations incorporated into lessons can enhance the teaching and learning of Physics. However, there are also everyday life events, such as car crashes and lightning strikes that also aptly demonstrate concepts in Physics but cannot be easily recreated in class. Today, many of these events are captured on video and are easily available on the internet. To facilitate teachers to find what they need, we classify online videos useful for Physics teaching into six broad categories. Some of these videos can be more useful than traditional lecture demonstrations in providing relevant contexts for introducing Physics concepts. We will also discuss some principles for designing class activities to help students make sense of the underlying Physics in the videos.

scholarly journals Historical e-sources on the problem of the irrevocable human losses during the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945 (by the example of the Kuibyshev (Samara) Region)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-225
Author(s):  
Olga Yuryevna Igoshina
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Database ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Military ◽  
Mass Sources ◽  
Human Losses

This paper considers one of the urgent problems of the great Patriotic war history - the irrevocable human losses during the great Patriotic war. In the 21st century mass sources (electronic databases and databanks) were distributed. Some of them can be used while studying how local people of the Kuibyshev (now - Samara) Region participated in the military operations in 1941-1945. The paper analyzes information opportunities of the generalized databank Memorial and the consolidated database of the all-Russian information and search center Fatherland. The paper also analyzes the electronic database of the irrevocable human losses of the Kuibyshev Region that is founded on The Memory book and made by the author of the paper. The databank Memorial and the database Fatherland are on the Internet and help to determine the fate or find the information about the dead or missing relatives and friends as well as to determine their burial place. Sections of the victims are accompanied by links as well as by digital copies of archival documents that confirm the information about the date, place of service, death and burial of soldier. Electronic resources have unique features and value for achieving the historical truth about the price of Victory.

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